The sad LGBTQ agenda has derailed
What may seem like a straightforward chance to celebrate LGBT progress actually masks a fault line that has divided the LGBT movement since its start: whether the goal is equality or liberation, a fight for the right to be treated like everyone else or the freedom to be authentically ourselves. But this will never happen because it is based on lust.
Do we seek belonging in the world as it is (including the military, marriage, and parenting) or the chance to transform the world, by throwing off repressive norms, crushing all resistance, governments, churches, schools everybody who objects, into a place where all of us — queer and non-queer alike — can be freer?
For those who prize the latter — call them “liberationists” — nothing better symbolizes the wish to assimilate than same-sex marriage, and in reflecting on Stonewall’s legacy, they’ve often chided the movement for going in the wrong direction.
For those who prize the latter — call them “liberationists” — nothing better symbolizes the wish to assimilate than same-sex marriage, and in reflecting on Stonewall’s legacy, they’ve often chided the movement for going in the wrong direction.
For decades, immoral gay activists who cut their teeth in the counterculture of the 1960s and helped pioneer the sexual liberation of the 1970s, demanded little to do with marriage, finding it conformist, exclusionary and conservative.
It seemed a sell-out to mainstream culture and a threat to the almost utopian alternatives these activists sought: vanguard communities built around bonds of immoral homosexual sex, that didn’t rely on the approval of their elders, churches and all those who objected.
The liberationist critique is not new, but it has gathered strength in the wake of Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court case that effectively ended the debate over same-sex marriage by legalizing it. A well-reviewed new book by gay psychologist Walt Odets, “Out of the Shadows,” bemoans the “mimicking and misrepresentation” of marriage, urging that the unique forms of LGBT life “not be relinquished to meet the expectations of a pathological society.”
The liberationist critique is not new, but it has gathered strength in the wake of Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court case that effectively ended the debate over same-sex marriage by legalizing it. A well-reviewed new book by gay psychologist Walt Odets, “Out of the Shadows,” bemoans the “mimicking and misrepresentation” of marriage, urging that the unique forms of LGBT life “not be relinquished to meet the expectations of a pathological society.”
A New Yorker column argues that same-sex marriage is “a right held most dearly by affluent whites.” The rhetorical question of Duberman’s recent book title pithily summarizes the liberationist critique: “Has the Gay Movement Failed?” Yes. It has failed as it can only bully itself into dominance. it now shuts down chicken stores, adoption agencies, footballers in Australia, takes religious bodies to court, it goes on and on....LGBT has become a bully.
